Table of Contents

Preface ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... 1

Estela C. Matriano

Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………….... 5

Terrance R. Carson

Part I  - Historical Perspective on Peace Education ……………….. 8

Chapter One - Peace Education and the Schools:

What can we Learn from History ………………………………………………………………..…….. 10

Ken Osborne

Chapter Two – Some Current Controversies in the New Peace Education

Movement: Debates and Perspectives …………………………………………………………..….  25

Nigel Young

Part II – Present Context …………………………………………………………..…………. 35

Chapter Three – Peace Education and Curriculum ……………………………………….…... 37

Robin Burns

Chapter Four – Peace Education: The Asian Experience …………………………………..  41

Virginia Cawagas

Chapter Five – Learning  Through Action in a Violent Environment:

An Experience Of Adult Non-Formal Education at the Grass Roots Level ………... 49

Jaime Diaz

Chapter Six - The Relationship of Feminism to Peace and Peace Education ……. 57

Birgit Brock-Utne

Part III – Nurturing Children as a Starting Point

for Peace Education …………………………………………………………………………………... 64

Chapter Seven – The Infinite Capacity of the Child: The Foundation of

Education For Peace ……………………………………………………………………………..…………..... 66

Mildred Masheder

Chapter Eight -   Problems of War and Peace in The Child’s World …………………. 71

Lennart Vriens

Part IV – Problems of Teaching in Transforming Culture ……. 80

Chapter Nine - A Pedagogy for Peace …………………………………………………………...…… 82

John Hurst

Chapter Ten - Towards a Transpolitics: The Role of the Peace Educator …………. 90

Peter Dale Scott

Current Addressed of Contributors ………………………………………………….………...…….  106